Incarnations: Profiles of Guru Nanak, Mirabai, Akbar and Malik Ambar

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Portraits of eminent Indians by Professor Sunil Khilnani. The life of Guru Nanak who founded the Sikh religion in the 15th Century, mystic and poet Mirabai, one of India's most revered saints, Mughal Empire ruler Akbar and Ethipian slave turned king maker Malik Akbar.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:04.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use
0:08.0	go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.
0:14.0	Hello, I am Rupa Chha and you are listening to
0:18.0	Incarnations on the BBC World Service, a history of India
0:22.0	from Buddha to the present day.
0:24.0	Over the next hour, I'll be introducing portraits
0:27.0	by Professor Sunil Kilani of some of the outstanding individuals
0:31.0	from over 2,000 years of Indian history.
0:35.0	Lives which have been remembered as well as sometimes forgotten.
0:39.0	He now is Professor Kilani with a look at Guru Nanak,
0:43.0	the founder of the Sikh religion.
0:50.0	We Indians are fussy about our food.
0:53.0	What's in it? Who cooked it? Who served it?
0:57.0	It's a fussiness rooted in the caste system,
1:00.0	with its taboos about purity and pollution,
1:03.0	and its humiliating rules about who can and can't handle food,
1:07.0	who removes used thalais and plates, who washes up.
1:16.0	The longer introduced by Guru Nanak,
1:19.0	the 15th century founder of the Sikh religion,
1:22.0	blew apart these rules.
1:24.0	It's about eating together collectively.
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